Wednesday 3 December 2008

Rising Star Games blog

Rising Star Games, the company responsible for bringing (delayed) Harvest Moon games to Europe has opened a corporate blog. Since in my thesis I also write about the importance of blogs for corporation, I can only salute their decision :) So far it looks more like a news page, but we can contribute with our comments, which is great. I do hope that in future there'll be also stuff like behind the scenes talk, exclusive previews and the likes. I've already asked a question there yesterday (about the release of RF2 and RFF) and am awaiting a reply. And judging by my past correspondance with them, I'll mosT likely get one, as they have a great PR policy. I received quick replies from Richar Barclay, their marketing manager. He was patient enough to anwer all my nagging questions ^^ And once I sent an e-mail during the weekend and I received an automatic reply, that if I needed something urgent, I could contact him via phone. Wow.
Anyway, that's a new RSS feed for my Google Reader. I still have some questions for them, among them is, whether they translate directly from Japanese or from the American translation. But I'+ll wait until the chance to ask this shows up.
Anyway, I hope caring for the blog won't slow their main work down, but it'll motivate them to have faster releases. I mean, it took one year for Rune Factory to come from Japan to North America, and then almost two years to get to Europe. At least Rune Factory 2 made it to NA "only" after 10 month. HM:IoH took a year and a half from Japan to NA, but then just three months to Europe. So things are indeed looking better :)